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What Kind of Magnet Are You?

by Chris Assaad on July 30, 2011

An amazing phenomenon has been unfolding in my life over the past few months: as I’ve begun to learn to really love myself, to honor my personal truth and to shine my light, I have found myself connecting with so many amazing people who are reflecting this love and light right back to me. The more I accept myself and step into being who I really am, the more I find myself experiencing a sense of belonging and worthiness in my relationships and interactions with others. Simply put, I have been finding that light attracts light and so too, does love attract love.

What I have also learned is that the principle holds true for any state of being, emotional state or state of mind. Doubt attracts doubt. Fear attracts fear. Anger attracts anger. We’ve all had those times in life when things seem like they can’t get any worse. Life keeps handing us one frustration after another and even when we feel like enough is enough, there’s that one more kick while we’re down that really pushes over the edge. What we may not realize in those moments is that it’s not until we have that rock bottom moment where all we can do is laugh at what we’ve just been through that our internal state shifts and allows us to attract the relief we’ve been seeking all along. The only problem is that we’ve been seeking the relief from a place of frustration, despondency, hurt or anger, and unfortunately this just ends up bringing us more of the same.

Since realizing this, I’ve been going around and picturing myself as a big human magnet. I constantly remind myself that whatever I am being is what I am going to attract. Whatever I see coming my way is just a reflection of the frequency I’m vibrating at. There’s a lot of power in that and the truth is that we all have it. Some of us may not have realized it yet or we have had a taste and are scared by the responsibility that comes with it so we pretend we don’t know better. However once we do embrace it, we get a say in how our life goes and things can get pretty exciting!

Of course, this does not mean that we will be completely immune to challenges and impermeable to the ups and downs of life. What it does mean is that we will have a new tool with which to face those challenges and when things aren’t going our way, we can adjust our magnet and cause a shift before we hit rock bottom.

So whatever life throws at you or whatever it is you wish to experience, set your magnet accordingly and prepare yourself to receive what you are seeking. I’ve been focusing on being a peace, love and inspiration magnet and I’ve been overwhelmed by the deepening experience of peace in my life, the pure love and the abundant flow of creative energy that have been coming my way.

You get to choose. What kind of magnet do you want to be?

Love,

Chris

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Chris is a TDL reader and a rad singer/songwriter. Check out his website here.

  • http://facebook.com/rubyintheboudoir Ruby

    Thank you Chris for sharing your journey in such an honest and insightful post. I can relate to so much of this – as someone who has been on a similar journey over the past year, I have found that my connections to people and situations that were not serving me have naturally fallen away, while other connections have deepened. There’s suddenly a whole lot of new stuff entering my life too! It’s an unsettling feeling, but I’m learning to ride the wave, and accepting this is par for the course as I turn my compass toward love and abundance rather than fear and need. As you say, exciting times indeed!

    Thanks once again x

  • Zhonda

    A big human magnet – haaaaaa. I can’t wait to put this into action this morning; really makes me want to get out there and see what wonderful things I can attract into my life! Thanks for creating this wonderful article that will uplift everyone who reads it, and the people they attract.

  • jeff

    my magnet today is shining with love and allowing others to do their thing; my magnet is about appropiate boundries for myself; my magnet today is saying be busy with life’s work and allow others to be busy or not;; love is abundant; :)

  • Lily

    Hey Chris

    guess what? I feel like people gravitate to me where ever i go, for instance at the church overseas during my recent holiday, people approached me and introduced themselves. i felt really happy, gaining these new friends. then at my home parish after i delivered the gospel message, a woman hugged me tight and said she was moved by my delivery. in the street, at the shopping centre, i get a lot of smiles, maybe because i always feel light and look happy. so you are right, we attract others when we radiate love and happiness. it’s magnetic and it’s fantastic!

  • Shay

    Yes <3

  • Amy

    I like the ‘human magnet’ image; it really simplifies the process of attraction. This is really inspiring! Thank you Chris!

  • Anahit

    Amen to that. As I’m reading I’m thinking this is
    my life for the past 5 to 6 years. The worst things got
    in my life the deeper I went into who I truly am. Thank you for putting it so eloquently.

  • Tiffany

    MAGNI-FICANT!!! LOL

  • Hildy

    Love it !!!

  • http://www.twitter.com/@lovemakeover Shelly

    Great Analogy, such a helpful tool for course correcting on the path:)

  • Daniela

    Thank you for sharing, I need this now. I started to realize some things a while ago. It helps me develop strong relationship with myself and the people around me. :)

  • http://Www.shopwearlove.com Paula

    I love this! I have been thinking the same but wasn’t sure if it was me. So now you’ve confirmed it is and I am co creating my life this way… Very cool

  • Monique

    I am starting to see things different…I am a wonderful person…. Caring kind loving giving at when I am out in the world I project…everything that I am I live my aura…. I love me like seriously….

  • http://www.innerblissblog.com Alia

    Chris,
    This is such a beautiful post filled with so much wisdom and truth. We really are magnets, attracting the very things we are sending out. Thank you for sending out love and light…may it flow back to you in so many ways.

  • http://www.ChrisAssaad.com Chris Assaad

    Thank you all for sharing and for your kind words. You are the love and light I am talking about : )

  • http://fairbeauty.org Christy

    I agree with the mindset that we get what we put out to the universe…in some regards. I think there is also an element of chaos, where good things happen to people who may not ‘deserve’ them while horrible, devastating things happen to people who consciously are ‘good’ in all areas of their life. Obviously, having a positive, healthy attitude better prepares us for handling these challenges but I think it’s important to realize we only control so much and it is a balance. We are only in control of ourselves in a world that is out of our control. And it’s impossible, according to Social Impact theorists, that the environment won’t impact us in central ways, just as it’s impossible for us individually not to impact the environment. Which means, if you follow this school of thought, it’s impossible to be unmoved by external factors and it could change your mindset in a different way (or changing the ‘magnet’ so to speak).

    The unfortunate consequence of having a negative experience (or a series of negative experiences) and having a negative attitude is that, as you mentioned, it pushes people away when someone needs them most. Arguably, people who have a negative ‘magnet’ need the most reassurance and love, peace, etc. from the world. But, it’s not likely they will receive it because the behaviors associated with a negative mindset (like withdrawing, pushing people away, depression, etc.) will make them less able to be helped (or others less likely to want to help them).

    And for those people who may have a negative magnet, how could one change that? Especially without getting the support and love from others around you? It seems like a very impervious task.

    • http://www.ChrisAssaad.com Chris Assaad

      Hey Christy. Thanks for your thoughts and questions. I agree that all we can control in life is ourselves, which includes our perception of life as it unfolds. From this perspective, the goal then is to transcend the idea of “good things” and “bad things”. Everything that takes place can serve a purpose and teach us something. It has also been said that we will never be challenged beyond our ability to overcome, so this might give you another way of looking at the “terrible things happening to good people”.
      As for people who are in a negative state, I believe that the key to shifting that is by learning to love oneself first, and then the love from others will follow. We can only give and receive love to the extent that we love ourselves so once again it starts within. Hope that helps :)

      • Neveen Aziz

        Chris, I really like your article…And I see Christy’s point too!
        But there is nothing uncontrolled under God’s control!
        As you said, God is honest not to let us challenge beyond our ability to overcome. I got to the point when I feel I’m crushed. But I learned to tell my problem how big is my God!! However, as a human being I get weak most of the time. So I pray about it and I stand up again with God’s help. I think this will keep happening till I get God’s message to me. The lesson He wants me to learn…

        Thank you Chris!

  • Cassidy

    FANTASTIC!!! :)

  • http://thedailylove.com/what-kind-of-magnet-are-you/ MARIA

    Thanks Chris for such an inspiring experience you had … strong words and very true . I appreciated you shared it oxox
    much love .
    Mary